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    Reclaiming Our Future

    As ESCAP celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, we find ourselves facing our biggest shared test on the back of cascading and overlapping impacts...
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    Nepal Responsible for Torture, Rape and Killing of Teenage Girl: UN Rights Committee

    Nepal’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act specifically says that those responsible for sexual violence are not eligible for amnesty. But the authorities are yet...
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    Former Child Labourer, now Lawyer, Passes Light of Freedom to Others

    “It’s very necessary because the leaders, the decision-makers, sometimes forget, sometimes neglect what they promised. They need to be reminded. And also, because the...
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    Mancession To Shecession: Why Did Pandemic Recession Hit Women Harder

    The pandemic recession broke a pattern observed in similar crises – the impact on women was disproportionately higher than that on men, earning it...
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    From Child Laborer to Activist, Tara Banjara Asks World to Pledge to End the Scourge of Child Labour

    Tara Banjara, rescued from her life of a child labour at the age of eight years, questions whether children who are born poor are...
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    Early childhood development

    US Study Tells How Summer Holidays Impact Children’s Growth

    Children grow faster during the school year than during the summer period, show scientists. In contrast to the strong seasonality of vertical growth, there...
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    Spare A Thought For Sri Lanka’s Forever Marginalised Communities

    Let us remind ourselves of the promise we have made to our future generations – all so clearly embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals....
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    Early childhood development

    Revealed: The Shocking Extent of Exploitative Baby Formula Milk Marketing

    The global formula milk industry, valued at some 55 billion US dollars, is targeting new mothers with personalised social media content that is often...
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